Saber Marionette What don't you like?

Lousy zanchi, sparking all this contraversy.
I do have some problems with it, although I also have a deep affection for it, it being my first ever anime DVD, and my first subbed series.
I don't like the way it's at times too childish, it can be a bit annoying.
The animation is at times a bit off, but never too bad.
The story is a bit slow at the start, but it does soon pick up.
That's all I can think of for the moment. It's a grand anime, sure.

 

imo too much attention on Lime
has a habit of starting of things and dropping them
(Marine)

 

DVDs too expensive and too little per JtoX volume. = =;; Hey, the J ones have TWO disks inside each!!

Some characters deserve more attentions.

 

-Dub
SMJ: Decent.
SMJ Again: ehhh... meh...
SMJ to X: Sucks balls, worst dubbing I have ever seen (Next to Love Hina). A ****ing hobo could do ****ing better.

-Too much attention on Lime. Cherry, and Bloodberry deserve some more spotlight.

-Leaves what happened to Bloodberry a blank. Deserves Explaination.

-SMJ to X Vol. 4 and 5 doesn't work on my Playstation 2, ****ing Bandai.

-Kikuko Inoue; wonder if she could of made a good Cherry? The anime world will never know.

 

Isn't Kikuko Inoue Panther's voice in the Japanese version?

I would change the English voice actors to people who have watched the sub and kind of know what the characters are like, and maybe who could try to imitate the voice styles for that character the Japanese version had.

And maybe some more slack for Hanagata at times would be good...

 

Sweet, gentle Belldandy is Panther?!

Actually, listen to the landlady's voice in Chobits... I think thats Inoue...

 

Note on Dubs
Love Hina's dub wasn't bad imo
Saber Marionette J + Again aren't bad either
Nadesico's dub ain't bad either
Now J to X That's bad.
SMJ-One more thing that's bad.... introduces many characters but drops them after a while.

 

It's like seeing Superman kick an old lady!

And yes, Shiratori Yuri did an excellent job with Cherry.

 

But then the funny faces are there to drive you into the anime, isn't it? It gets so emotional and sad later on that they have to start off with some humorous things to capture attentions, I think.

 

Well, Magic Knight Rayearth is different because you can't really call them "funny faces". The characters are just in too..er..SD form/ chibi forms. And I understand that much - TOO cute stuff tends to be annoying. For example, Digi Charat.

 

I'd like to add more things

What i liked the least of SMJ/JtoX:

IT ENDED! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK instead of complains, I'll add suggestions to what would make my SMJ experience more enjoyable:

* a mascot. I know, this sounds kiddy/childish. But I'd like to see Ponta-kun more often. Perhaps like Lime's pet? Like, it'd be around her everytime. Well this is for JtoX, where the series are a bit darker and Lime isn't as childish (or destructive ) as in J.

I said it somewhere before, but i'd like Ponta-kun changing pages between scenes when something funny happened. (i.e. hanging from the next scene in a slidedown)

* More Marine stuff. Hey, how about if of JAgain, instead of her getting along with the marionettes at first, she would have been lost, and her journey thru Japoness / New Texas (perhaps even Gartland or Xian) was a whole process, like what happened to Lime with her maiden circuit maduration process?

* Less plasma clouds. I would have LOVED characters flying in airships or something. I don't know, I just think that zero airplanes makes the SMJ universe too boring.

* Perhaps there would be SOME women (more experiments to return the female to Terra II... all unsuccessful to a certain degree... like girls having a limited lifespan , but only capable of breeding men?

That'd be neat: Having both a) more female characters in the series, and b) The problem of finding an authentic female to save the world.

More suggestions:

* More chapters involving secondary characters: Sensei Obiichi/Yang Ming (in the novels they're the same person), Akashi, Reed...

Yes that's what i'd consider the biggest hole in the series. More characters.

* More dark stuff (but not completely dark and angsty, but instead, like each chapter/subplot having a somewhat happier ending. Lime learning the hard lessons of Life, and still retaining her innocence would be very neat. Hey, perhaps that could be a sequel to JtoX... ah anyway It won't happen bwaa..... it's finished *sniff*

 

What don't I like?

The one-dimensionalness of Otaru's marionettes. I mean,with the exception of their stint in Xi'An when they're amnesiacs,they don't do a whole lot of growing outside their "pre-programmed" personalities,and even then such external growth is debatable.

 

It's one of the first times that I like an anime wholly. Then it's difficult for me to find something that I dislike. Call me a fan of SMJ

Perhaps, some plots in SMJ Again. The story has a course until the 3rd part of the OVA and then changes suddenly with all the liquid terminator thing.

And in J to X (I take it as the best part of the whole series). I would like to watch more about the saberdoll's developing.

But I like how hanagata and Panther end up working together in the end (will not talk about it, it's a spoiler

 

There is only one who could do Cherry's voice, and that is Shiratori Yuri. She gave Cherry so much more personality. To think of Panther's voice in place of Cherry's... Ugh. No, in my opinion, Cherry is perfect in every single way...(muses to self) Am I giving away too much here? :sweat2: If so, it's #4.

Anyway, what didn't I like?... Such a tough choice. Saber Marionette J nears perfection. Umm... If anything, I'd prefer if the subs were completely accurate. (see http://www.mangatoanime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5615)